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AOL. xxvi MANNING, S., C., WEDNESDAY., JULY 3 92Nv5 CLARK LOST VOTES WHILE WILSON ADDED FIFTY-ONI TO HiS NUMBER BRYAN VOTES FOR HIM The Great Commoner Changes His Vote From Clark to Wilson When Tammany Throws 1ts Vote to the Former, Whose Friends Became Panic-Stricken at Outbreak. With Gov. Woodrow Wileon gain ing on each ballot and Speaker Champ Clark constantly loosing ground in the race for the presiden tial nomination, the Detmocratic con vention at 11:05 Saturday night ad journed until Monday morning at 11 o'clock. Twenty-six ballots had been taken since the first call of the States, and there was no hope af a final ver .dict Saturday night. It is against all political precedent for a national convention to sit Sunday. When the convention took a recess Saturday night, Speaker Clark was hurrying to response to an urgent call from his campaign director, Wil liam Jennings Bryan, at the after noon session, attacked Clark and said he would not vote for any man wil ling to accept nomination at the hands of "Murphy of Tammany Hall" The ballot Saturday ran from the 13th to the 26th. Wilson began at 356 and ended at 407 1-2. a net gain during the day of 51 votes. Speak er Clark began at i54 and fell to 463 1-2, a lots of 90 1-2 votes. The .anti-Clark leaders in the convention called attention to the fact that this almost exactly offset the 90 votes giv en Clark by New York. Changes to Gov. Wilson were coming from many delegates as the session closed. His leaders believed that once he'had ov ertaken Clark, the switching of dele gates would become general. The Harmon delegates from Ohio threw their support to Seaker Clark on several ballots, but they did not mat-erially help him towards the nec essary two-thirds vote because of the gradual inroads made by Wilson. They then changed back to Harmon and remained there until the last ballot of the evening. The great bulk of the Massachusetts delegation deserted Clark Saturday night and started a Foss boom. It created lit tle excitement. The convention struggled in vain through a long and sultry session Saturday trying to make a nomina tion for president. Saturday night the perspiring delegates were at their task, many of them on the Terge of prostration from heat and lack of rest. Champ Clark steadily lost ground during the afternoon, dropping from 554 on the 13th ballot to 500 1-2 on the 22nd, despite New York's support up to that time had continued firm. Woodrow Wilson -made important gains during the later afternoon, his vote going from 356 1-2 on the 13th to 396 1-2 on the 22nd. The Wilson forces were enthusiastic Saturday and were claiming they ultimately would win. The Clark people plainly were worried by the defect~lons in their ranks. -Kansas was the first important State to desert Clark as a whole for Wilson. The Wilson contingent was not able to get a two-thirds vote until Saturday. Then under State conven tion instructions the entire 20 Kan sas votes went to Wilson. After the 21st ballot the Clark people. In some thing of a panic, sought to have a re cess taken. - This motion was defeat ed. The afternoon was marked by an other dramatic outburst from Mr. Bryan. Claiming the privilege of ex plaining why he and more than a dozen other delegates from Nebraska were going to switch their votes from Clark to Wilson, the former candi date held the floor for nearly an hour and was the centre of a storm which swept the ball in changing waves of protest and applause. He stated that so long as Champ Clark continued to accept the support of "Charles F. Murphy and Tammany Hall" he would not vote for him. In ehanging to Wilson Mr. Bryan said be rese'rved the right to s'wing again i* New York or other State delega tIons "controlled by the .Interest sup ported the standard of the New Jer sey governor." From the floor a score of delegates burled questions at the Nebraskan and groaned or applauded as he en deavored to make hImself heard in answer. Several delegates demanded to know if Mr. Bryan would support the ultimate nominee of the conven tion in the event that his nominating vote included the 90 from New York. Mr. Bryan said he was content to make his protest in advance of any decision by the convention. He "ex pected" to support the nominee. A l awyer, he shouted, was permitted "to defend a criminal after the crime was committed; but would not be permitted to defend the criminal if he had abetted the crime."~ WVilson Gains on Fourth. The fourth ballot taken at 6 o'elock gave Clark 443, Wilsonl 349, Harmon 136. Underwood 112, baldwin 14, Marshall 31. Kern 28. Neeessary te nominate ~26. Fifth Unchanged. Th.e eith ballot taken about sever o'clock gave the same results excepi Wilson's vote fell eff two votes, 'which went to Bryan. The convenrion then adjiourned un til 9 o'clock. Baldwin Collapses onl Ninth. The ninth banotM was taken aboui 11 o'clock. Both Wilson and Ciad gained eligh:y, 'wh~is Underood9 vot, rose also. Harmnon lost 9 totei a madin onte;'irels. The VNt FIEND WAS LYNiED ATTEMPTED ASSAULT AND SHOT WOM.N IN THE BA, After Being Identified by .Well Known Farmer's Wife, Negro Was Riddled With Bullets. Having attempted to assault the wife of a highly respectable farmer ,of Pickens county and having shot ler twice in the back with a single barreled shot-gun, as she ran through the flelds to her husband, Books Gordon, a young negro, was torn from the custody of the sheriff by a determined mob late Saturday afternoon and lynched. The woman is reported to be rest ing well, and her chances of recov ery are favorable unless complica tions set in. The crime is one of the most atrocius of the kind ever com mitted in that section of the State, and the portion of Pickens county where the offense was perpetrated, was in a terrible turmoil until the thirst for vengeance had been satis fied. According to reports from Easley the negro attacked the woman as she was at work in the field at 10 o'clock c Saturday morning. She broke loose from him and ran through the fields toward her husband, who was about a half mile away. The negro carried a single-barrel- s ed shotgun and demanded to know of e the woman if she intended reporting the matter to her husband. She re plied, as she ran, that she would tell her husband, and then the negro lev eled the gun at her and fired. The wound did not deter the woman in 9 her purpose. The negro ran after P her, reloading his gun as he ran. He c demanded of her the second time if e she intended telling her husband, but before she could reply he raised his 3 gun and fired upon her again. 1 Having fired the second shot into r the back of the fleeing woman the 7 negro turned and ran toward the r mountains. News of the outrage t quickly spread throughout the sur- h rounding country and a mob of angry men gathered and started in pursuit. C The chase continued for several t' bours, but Sheriff Roark, of Pickens P county beat the mob in the race, cap- n turing the negro about fifteen miles from the scene of the crime. 1 The sheriff started toward the n Pickens county jail with his prisoner, f I but was overtaken by the mob and a the prisoner taken away from him. I was: Wilson 351 1-2, Clark 452, Har mon 127. Underwood 122 1-2, Mar- p shall 31. Kern, Gaynor and Bryan 1 b each. Absent one. 7 Clark Makes Big Gain on Tenth. On the tenth ballot S1 of the New K York delegates hitherto for Harmon changed to Clark, and this caused a demonstration by the Clark men. Wil con and Harmon each lost two of their votes from Michigan, which also went for Clark. Otherwise the votec was anchanged.a With the Bryan resolutIon against t acertng a candidate in touch with the big financial interests disposed of Thursday night, the convention lead- s ers decided that it was too late to at tempt balloting on the nomination. ft was announced that the convention would ait Into the small hours of the V morning to hear nominating speeches ~ and would then adjourn until noon Friday. This decided, Chairman James an- I nounced the calling of the roll on the ri States for the nominations of candi dates for president, a motion was adopted under the gavel limitingb nominating speeches to 30 minutes* and seconding speeching to 5 min utes. When Alabama, the first State on the roll, was called, the chairman of the delegation announced that -Wil lam B. Bankhead, son of Senator Bankhead, would speak. He placed j in nomination Oscar W. Underwood. b Mr. Blankhead referred to Mr. Un derwood as Democracy's real leader and best asset, invulnerable both In his public and private records. He touched on the "present degen-e eracy" of the Republican party and a told of its broken promises. He then went on to outline the qualities needed in a Democratic can didate. Mr. Underwood, he said. was! the logical candidate. inasmuch as t he had had much to do with the re-, deption of Democratic pledges. One benefit of the Republican par ty's failure to carry out its promises. he said, was the dawning of "that good day when the peopie are to re stort to full power and responsibilit the Democratic party, which hatst made it evident that it intends to serve the real interests of the people. H ae urged that the Democrats tak~e caein picking their candidate. He pointed to the tariff as the paramount issue and outlined the injustice of the0 Republican policy. He then went on to detail the char acteristics of a sucesssful candidate. Underwood, he said. had all !lhese. In conclusion he said: 'He is a man who in moral action iq bound by the ten commandments: in debate by dignity and decorum: i intercouse by gentleness and can- e dor; in victory by modesty and mag nanimity; in action by prudence and courage; in government bi the con - e~ stitution and law. He can counsel without haughtiness and reprov ec without scorn. He fears no man' censure, but inspires every. man's re-a speet. "Knowing him blameless in his S private life: invulnern~bie in his rec Iord of long public service, imperturb able in action and impregnable in honor. Alabama presents for the presidetial nomination the name of;' Democracy's real leader arnd b ?sta set-Oscar W. Underwood. Bankhead concluded at 11:1') p~m I and the Alabama delegates leaped with cheers to their seats. They were jone by tha Georgians and other~ PARTY-Of tRO RES$ LEMOCRATS DECLARE A PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE lNIDER BRYAN'S LEAD [he Nebraskan Secures Almost Un animous Passage of Resolution De claring Against the Nomination of any Candidate Under Obligations to Morgan, Ryan or Belmont. W. J. Bryan Thursday night led :be Democratic Convention into a eclaration of progressiveness un teard of in political history. A resolution Introduced by him, vhich was passed by a two-thirds ajority, declared the convention op osed to the-nomination of any can idate for president under obligations o J. 1. Morgan, Thomas F. Ryan, Lugust Belmont or any "privilege eeking class. The convention was thrown into a rore by the proposition, which was riginally introduced called for the ithdrawal of Ryan and Belmont, elegates from Virginia - and New ork, respectively. This part of the resolution was re ented as invading the rights of sov reign states, and when its full im ort became known boos and catcalls, eers and hisses, were mingled with .andclapping, cheers and stamping of eet in the galleries and on the floor. Representative H. D. Flood of Vir inia dramatically characterized the roposition as insolent and said it ame from "the only man who desir d to control the Demoeratic party". Former Gov. McCorkle of West irginia called it foolish. Mr. Bryan iade the situation even more dra iatic by asking Virginia and New lork to request a modification of the esolution, and when they scorned be suggestion he took the course imself. From that moment sentiment hanged and the voting indicated %at Mr. Bryan as the erponent of rogress retained his hold upon De iocracy. After disposing of the Brya.n reso tion the convention proceeded with ominating speeches for candidates r p'resident, indicatiois being that ballot would not be reached until -ell along towards morning. Urged by the generally distributed iformation that the nomination of a residential candidate would be made efore the convention adjourhed hursday, crowds of spectators began ie into the convention hall early. y 7:30 p. m. the galleries and the uest seats on the fior were filled nd spectators were beginning to rowd the aisles. Many of the spectators in the gal ~ries again~ were prepared for gen ral demonstrations in favor of their indidates. Banners, lithographs and Il sorts of noise-making para-pher alia were carried into the hall by ae early arrivals. A big squad of rinceton students and alumni-prin pally cheering men--occupied seats. quads of Clark supporters also took laces In the gallery. On the stage behind the platform here the office-as and the speakers ere placed, Washington society blos >med forth, Wives and daughters f Gongressmen formed the greater art of the crowd on the stand. A alf dozen of the seats in the fron.t aw were taken by Mrs. Taft and her arty, who occupied the same places efore. Chairman James called the conven on to order at 8:13 p.m. and the: .ev. J. Ross Stevenson of Brown .Me-j toral church. Baltimore, offered1 rayer. The prayer concluded, United1 tates Senator Smith of South Caro na protested that delegates were eing kept out of the hall by the po ce. Chairman James directed the ~rgeant-at-arms to see that delegates ere admitted. Mr. Bryan arose and addressed the air. He was cheered. He sprung decided surprise by introducing the llowing resolution and asked for its nmediate consideration: "Resolved, That in this crisis In ur party's career, and in ourcon ry's history, this convention send reeting to the people of the United tates and assure them that the par Sof Jefferson and of Jackson Is ll the champion of popular gov rnment and equality before the law.; s proof of our fidelity to the people -e hereby declare ourselves opposed I the nomination of any candidate: >r president who is the representa e or under any obligations to J. ierpont Morgan, Thomas F. Ryan, .ugust Belmont, or any other mem er of the privilege tunting and far rseekng class. "Be it further resolved, That we emand the withdrawal from this onv ention of any delegate or dele ates constituting or representing be above named." Interrupted by Cheers. The Nebraskan was interrupted by heers several times during the read ag of the resolution. Is there objection to immeduiate onsderation?' asked Chairman ames. "I object," said a Connezt I ~t delegate. -I demand his nadie," shouted Sen or Luke Lea of Tennesse", a Bryan leutenant. "My name is Thomas . pellaey,"' said the objector. lie is .n alternative. "Obection having been made. i ove to suspend the rules and con ider the resolution at this time," aid Mr. Bryan. The convention was thrown into n uproar. Gov. Gilchrist of Florida, nade a point of order. The conven-1 ion had no right to take the action ueeied by Mr. Bryan, he said.. hainin .James said the convention! VAUliIN HAS ESCAPEU GREENVILLE MAN WHO IS FAC ING UGLY CHARGE. 0 Former Superintendent of Orphan Homes of Odd Fellows at Green ville Saws His Way to IUberty. T. U. Vaughn formerly superinten dent of the Odd Fellows' orphan I home, located near Greenville, and a prisoner of the Greenville county jail since May 31, charged with a triple crime against an orphan girl under his care, sawed his way to liberty early Wednesday morning and is at liberty. At 2 o'clock Wednesday morning the jailor was aroused by a negro woman prisoner, who was confined in a cell on the second floor above I Vaughn's cell, telling him that some one escaping from below. Before I the jailor could reach Vaughn's cell he had escaped, and a determined but .unsuccessful search has been t made throughout the day for the flee ing prisoner. Is practically certain that Vaughn I was aided by one or more persons 2 rom the outside. The prisoner made his escape by severing a section of " Ene of the window bars with a hack- r aw. A short distance from the point I where he tumbled over the jail yard i fence, he stumbled and on -the spot was found the saw frame, pieces of a the blade, the prisoner's hat and a t letter address to him. The hole t through which the man went meas- 8 red 12 by 7 inches, and only one a bar was sawed in twain. In the 6 racant cell today was seen the section E f bar the man bad sawed out. It aad been wrapped in clothing to leaden the rasping sound of the r iacksaw. On the floor of the cell lay t :he prisoner's thumbed Bible, a copy >f Whittier's poems and a copy of i 'Pilgrim's Progress." t The fugitive is evidently well sup- i >lied with money as the records in t :he office of the register of mesne 0 onveyance show that, since he was e ,laced in jail, he mortgaged hia hom. 'or the sum of $4,000. He is a man. f rather keen Intellect and is well t nformed, and the county authorities t -ealize that they have a diffieult task o proform if they capture him. As : o whether he ks armed, they do not e now. t The Vaughn case created some- t hing of a sensation in Greenville, P hen the warrant for his arrest was worn out. The press, out of consid- a ration for the Odd Fellows order P Lnd the orphan children at the home h .nd out of respect for the sensibili ies of the public, has suppressed a a rolume of details of the heinousness P f the life Vaughn is charged with t ed at the time he was in charge of t he orphanage. r FRENCH SAILORS KILTED. a un Explosion on ArmoreOd Oruiser Wounds Twety-One.t p five of the 3 seaman injured a ednesday on board the French ar- u nored cruiser Jules Michelet off Hy- e ~res, by the premature explosion of a e i1x-inch gun, are dying in the naval I1 ospstal at Toplon. The official inquiry into the cause! f the accident shows that there were wo explosions. By the first 13 men vere hurled to the deck and fright ully burned. As soon as the victims tad been conveyed ashore the firing vas courageously resumed with the ame gun under the direction of Ad- s~ niral Bertrand Sourrieu, commander > the training ship division in the .editerranean. Once more the charge gited and ten more officers and men vere injured. Nearly all the victims are young eamen. One man's arm was blqwn ff. It is believed the explosion was lue to the draft caused by the sudden ' ~losing of the breach of the gun, :hich ignited some sparks remaining t ~rom previous charges. The acci- V ~ents are generally attributed to the f iefectie system of gun cleaning be- t ween the sharges adopted in the 'rench army. CRISIS IN MEXICO. t t 3attle Between Federals and Rebels Will Soon be Faught. The crisis in the Mexican insurrec ,ions is at hand. Five thousand re >els. will entrench and fortified at lachimba, 46 miles south ofChihau lau, are expected to engage the Fed ral columns of equal strength corn nanded by Gen Huerta. At stake is the city of Chihau lu for months under rebel control,1 nd a vital point in Northern Mexico. 'ension such as never before prevail- t d in C'ihanhau Thursday. It is; ~vident, especially among foreigners, nany of whom have raised their na- Y ions' flag ov'er residences and busi- s l.ess houses.C I is generally realize4 that a rebel c ieeat or retreat would mean a dis-. >r~anized, uncontrolled flight to the ity of Chib auhau, with looting and rioting as a climax. Indications were that a stubborn It lefense would confront the Federal It ttack, through a shortage of am-i uunition may compel an early aban- i donment of B3achimba and a retire-!C mtent to Chihauhau. Making Good Flight. The Zeppelin dirigible airship Vic toria Louise started Saturday morn ing on a ten-hour ov'er-sea trip with 2 passeng~i aboard. The monster airship flew directly our from Ham bur. It is stated in some quartersJ that the purpose of the trip is to de rronstrate that an airship raid on England is posable, as the vessel's speed of 45 miles an hour and its full carrying capacity gives a radius as 'de as London from Hamburg and e s a as Brin1 from Emdon. jI SENTENCED TO JAIL PROMINENT LABOR LEADERS DE CLARED GUILTY. 3ompers, Mitchell and Morrison Con victed of Contempt By District of Columbia Court. Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison Ld John Mitchell, the labor leaders, vere Monday held -guilty of contempt >f Court by the Supreme Court of the )istrict of Columbia, in connection vith the Court's injunction in the 3uck's Stove and Range boycott case. 'hey will attempt -to appeal again to he Supreme Court of the United Itates, which reversed their former onviction. Bondsmen were on hand and attor Leys for the labor men gave notice c f an intention to file an appeal to Lave the Supreme Court review the udgment. In Its previous review of the case he Supreme Court reversed the con Iction on the ground that the con- f nmpt proceedings had been improper- 1 Y instituted. New proceedings were 2 ,t once begun. The sentences under the first con- ] ictibn were: Gompers, 1 year; 'Mor- A ison, nine months; MWtchell, six I 2ogths. Justid Wright imposed sim- | ar sentences Monday. | The eharge was that the'three men, ,a officers of the American Federa on of Labor, through the organiza on's official publication, had disre- 1 arded Justice Gould's injunction gainst the publication of the Buck's tove and Range Company's name In s "boycott list". In passing sentente on President ompers the Court said: "For the ing leader and chief offender the du F of the Court Is to be ascertained y its obligations to administer the aetice of the land 'without respect It 3 persons', requires In it determin 2g a penalty appropriate for this, be most dangerous and destructive f contempts, at least to parallel the xtreme penalty which is fixed by ood precedents." . After a lengthy recital of thxe func one of the law and judicial power, ie opinion conqlpdes: "The evidence shows.for these re ondents an assidudus and persistent c Ifort to undermine the supremacy of ie law by undertaking Insiduously t > destroy the confidence of the peo le In the integrity of the tribunals t hich maintain It, by Inocculating the c iinds of their followers and the peo le with a virus of mischevious false- c cGod and misrepresentation concern- , ig the Court and Judges, seeking r nd hopeful that the -support of the eople might be withdrawn from d ese tribunals and by these means a eir power undone, their jiidgment S edered valueless and forceless. o "The defendants are here at the r ourt bar to answer; they have been r frded full opportunity to hear the h .idence against them and to say hat, if any, reasons can exist against c ieir punishment. Every part of their i unishment, every part of their re-t ponse, for they offer no defence, is ieasured by the words of their lead- 1 r, Gompers: 'The things I am charg f with, I did. Go to - with your t ijunctions.' " NEGRO WOMAN LYNCHED. eorgia Mob Hangs Heartless Mar-J r der of WThite Woman. . Ann, Bosten, the negro woman who e abbed and killed Mrs. R. E. Jordan, ife Qf a prominent planter at Pine urst, Ga., Sunday afternoon, and ho later was taken from officers at ordele by mob, was lynched at an arly hour Monday morning. After securing the woman from the ~ fficers some of the memn,bers of the iob placed her in an automobile, hich was t'urnfed in the direction of lnehurst. According to the long die ~nce messege as soon as Pinehurst 'as reached the woman was taken e -om the automobile and hanged to a Details of the lynching are laclk ig. It Is known, however, that the oman was hanged by a small crowd t hich followed the sheriff In an au- 5 >mobile after he had thwarted it at i e scene of the murder. STANDS BY HITS FRIENDS. oliceman Pardoned by Blease Ar rested Jones. Ix The Sumter Item stys: Gov. lease had one zealous friend at the shepville meeting. Policeman Bar-1 'ick, who vaulted on the stand and id his hand on Judge Jones' arm, ut was informed by chairman Baker bat his services were not needed or ranted, is the same R. M.- Barwick 'ho killed a negro at Pinewood some ears ago was tried and convicted and I absequently pardoned by Gov. Blease ene can never tell when a pardon will ome in handy." Fight in Meaico. The rebel vanguard in front of !aehimba, Mexico, has been watching ie slow advance of the Federals and he present calculations point to out-1 ost fighting at an hour and a battle, a there is to be any a.t all, on Thurs-I ay. The proximity of the two 1 rmies was expected to bring sharp kirmishing Tuesday. Approximate r, 5,400 rebels are in Bachimba and :en. Antonio Rojas declares a dei ermined resistance will be made. Cuts Husband Throat. About 3 o'clock Sunday morning im Patterson, a whIte man employed1 t an Anderson livery stable, was wakened from his slumbers by his' rife slashing his throat with a razor. "he woman ran out of the house and raze back only after a doctor had >een summoned and attended Jiler BRYAN 13 RIIT IAMMANY HALL SHOULD NOT NAME THE NOMINEE. WOULD INVITE DEFEAT Bryan Justifies His Opposition [to Clark After the Latter Receives the Vote of Murphy's "Wax Fig. tres," as Bryan Calls the New York Delegation U vler Murphy. Bryan stuck to Clark faithfully ev n after a majority of the Clark men iad helped defeat Bryan by voting or Parker for temporary Chairman >f the convention. But when Boss Jurphy cast the nintey votes of New Cork for Clark it began to look as if L deal had been made and Bryan re used to stand for it. He said he vould support no man.that depended or his nomination on the vote of the rust delegation that represented ew York, and went over to Wilson. As a consequence, Clark lost near y one hundred votes and Wilson ained over fifty votes. Clark was Lurried to Baltimore from Washing on to try and stop the drift of his apporters to Wilson, which was teadily going on up to the adjourn ent of the convention after eleven clock Saturday night. Clark was ighly incensed at Bryan, and issued statement which was replied to by 1r. Bryan. Here is what Clark says . his statement: What Clark Says. "Replying to the cooumunicatlon of ay supporters, forwarded to me by ou, I beg to say that in ordinary cir umstances I would be the last to en ourage any movement which might end to ereate a deadlock in a Demo ratic National convention, and there y, perhaps, imperil the standing of ur party in the estimation of the ountry. I believe that I am speaking e exaat truth when I say that no ersonal interest would weigh with ie for one moment as against my ifelong devotion to our party. If a ajority of the dlelegates had not de lared their pi-eference for me as the andidate, I could not entertain your roposition. The fact however that bey have done so on eight successive allots creates an exceptional condi ion which surely merits careful and onscientious consideration. "It is undoubtedly true that the ustom of our party was violated rhen the convention refrained from atifying by a two thirds vote the ex ressed wish of a majority. This was one, according to my understanding t the instigation of Mr. Bryan, who uccessfully solicited the co-operation r others in an effort to prevent such atification. Mr. Bryan set forth his easone for pursuing this course in is speech explaining his own change f vote. He declared that I was a andidate at the primaries of Nebras a as a progressive and that, upon ls understanding, he was elected a elegate and instructed to vote for le in the National convention. This Scorrect. I was regarded then and ad been regarded for years as a pro ressive by the Democrats and by Mr. aryan. What has since transpired to con ince Mr. Bryan that though in his ldgment a progressive only two ionths ago, and even only one week go, i na not a progressive now? [ave I been recreant to my trust as peaker of the House of Representa ves? No, air. Bryan cites no act of tine as evidence of his assumption. le withholds his vbote from me be ause he will not participate in the omination of any man whose nomi ation depends upon the vote of the ew York delegation.'" Mr. Clark then quotes at length rom the statement which Mr. Bry n read in the convention and con luds: "Although Mr. Bryan's words are hrewdly chosen to avoid making a irect charge upon me, the implica ion is plain. It is thought, if elect d President of the United States, I ould consider myself oblgated to hose whom he mentions and that 1 rould be under the 'control of those nfl uences.' "It would be unbecoming in tiD olding my present position to ex ress the indignation which I feel at bese veiled aspersion upon my char .cter. Mr integrity has never be ore been Questioned, for the simple eason that never once during the eventeen years I have served in Con :ress have I been subjiected to the est of temptation through wrongful .cts in any forin. But whether I hall become your designated candi late for President or not, I am your lpeaker at a time when your party Is the crucible of scrutiny and I can tot, in duty, permit these aspersions o pass unheeded. "As Speaker, as a life-long Demo rat, proud of my party as an Amer can man, I pronounce Mr. Bryan's mplied accusations both false and in amous. "If l am speaking the truth with espect to- this matter, it follows nec ssarily that the reasons advanced by Jr. ryan for de'parting fromn the ine-honored custom ot our party in ecognizing the votee of the majority Lre not reasons at all. but the shal owest of pretexts put forward to chieve some purpose which I shall tot attempt to divine. .-T bid y'ou, then, say to my friends ha: I accept with deepest gratitude heir renewed assurances of loyalty, ud now declare without qualifica ion that my name will remain be 'ore the Conv'ention, subject to no rade or dicker, until two-thirds of he delegates shall ratify or refuse to atify the action of the majority."~ Bryan Replies to Clark. Here is the rply of Bryan to llark: "I have received notice by >ublication only. The only criticismn hoa maa t Mr Clarkj is not TWO HUNRL DI FEARFUL TORNADO PASSES BY WINNIPEG, MAN. Ten Million Dollars of Property Was Destroyed and Two Hundred Peo ple Killed. A dispatch from Winnepeg. Man., says at ten o'clock on Sunday night I- was believed that two hundred peo ple had been killed and property loss of $10,000,000 entailed by by a tor nado which, after a day of thunder storms and high winds, struck Re gina, Saskatchewan, at 6 p. m. A number of bodies have been taken from the wreckage. The tornado came from the South t and first struck the new Parliament building, just completed, at a cost of $2,000,000. The building is of steel and concrete .and, while it still stands t is badly shaken. The storm swept northward mow ing a path six blocks wide through I the fashionable residence district. c Along Victoria street from 16th to 1 11th streets 300 houses were destroy ed and many people killed. Automo biles filled with people were hurled t high In the air and dropped blocks away. At 11th street, In the business dis trict, warehouses, banking Institu tions and retail stores were sent Into d heaps of ruins, while the air was f11 ed with the wreckage. Passing the business district, the Canadian Pa cifle Railway tracks were reached. Six big grain elevators were toppled c over like ten pins, the timbers being glie in heaps on the tracks. The local telephone office was wrecked and it Is leared ihaat affteen t grls employed there were killed. The telephone exchange building, the Standard block, the First Baptist Church and Baird and Bott.el build Ing are among the structures destroy ed. All wiresexcept one telegraph wire -a are down. This one wire Is crowded with private mesages from people who wish -to send word of their safe- r ty to friends and relatives. A spec al train left Winnipeg shortly after 9 o'clock with doctors and nurses and telegraph and telephone repair men. t. that he has acted wrongly, but that he has failed to act. I may overesti mate the importance of the Presiden tial office, but I have felt that an as pirant for that office ought to manage his own campaign and not allow peo- e ple to do things for him without his direct and specific authority." 0 "The papers announced that Mr. e Clark was neutral between Mr. Par- el ker and myself In the temporary chairmanship fighit, and that he In formed his supporters to vote as they pleased. If that contest were purely a contest between Judge Parker and myself, as Individuals, his refusal to ake part would not be material, al- ti hough he never sent out a piece of 0 iterature or had a speech made inb is behalf that did not represent him q my special champion for sixteen ears. If he distributed any litera- c< ure in which he associated his name ith Mr. Parker's I shall be glad to h ithdraw this statement upona inspec :on of the literature. "But the contest beween Judgec Parker and myself was not a perso nal contest and everybody but Mr.t lark knew this. It was between progressive Democracy on one side, ad reactionary Democracy on the ther, and I conten'd that in such a ontest it was Mr. Clark's duty to take one side or the other, if, in his' udgment, there Is any material dif - erence between the two kinds of Democracy. If he Insists that there c a no difference he has no right to omplain of criticism at the hands of ~ hose who believe that there is a vi-a tal difference." "But the activity of Mr. Clark'sa managers is as objectionable as his wn inactivity. They have been ine onstant co-operation with the reac tionaries. If Mr. Clark did not au-g horize them 'to act he has, so far as know failed to rebuke them for the action. I take it for granted that he does not object to the action of his managers in soliciting or at least ac epting without protest, the 90 wax b figures which Mr. Murphy, under the unit rule, uses to carry ouf, the will of the predatory interests. c "The country is not much interest d in Mr. Clark's opinion of me; lie wrill have ample time in which to exZ prss his opinion after the Conve-d tion, whether he is nominated or not; d but If I am any judge of news value f items, the people would like to t know immediately whether ho be-e lieves that the New York delegation, which is completely under the dcmi-e nation of Mr. Murphy and which con-t tains among its numbers representa tirvs, attorneys or agents of nearly 0 every predatory interest that Is op pressing the people, stands In same ' position as delegates which represent ii the masse:s, and whether he has any c objection to a nomination made pos- ~ deleglyb the support of the New "I have tried to advise Mr. Clark C in his own interest, as I believe, as well as in the interest of the party. a~nd it is a source of great disappoint m'ent to me that he should have lie tened to pesonal enemies ot mine more than he has to me. I feel that it is not presumptuous .for me to as- e sume that I am better acquainlted with the sentiment of the peo~ie than those who have had hisI ear, and I am sure that I speak for a larger number. I am sure, too, 1 that I am as disinterested as those Iupon whcse counsel he relies. I bii-e that Mr. Clark is right at leart. but during rhe last feq fsays e has been mIsled and he has :failed to take advahtage of the oppdrtuni ties presented to throw his infteso6 atirely into .the balhnee when ques N ATTEMPT TO HOWL HIM DOWN WAS A FAILURE WAS GIVEN OVATION Lt Georgetown What Appeared To Be Strictly Blease Meeting Turned into Tremendaous Victory for Jones, So Far as Enthusiasm and Applause is Concerned. An unsuccessful effort, chiefly by 1embers of a large party from An rews, wearing "Cole Blease" hat ands and streamers to howl down udge Jones was a feature of the tate campaign meeting held at eorgetown Saturday." Numbe-s of he 800 or more citizens in attend nce had come to the meeting ready oe either fight or frolic, out the trou le which alarmists had feared be ause of the tensity prevaUing in the cal political situation dii not occur. a fact, there was no disposition to -ard violence shown by anybody, al hough partisans made known their references unmistakably and the at iosphere was palpably electric with Weling. Interest, of course, centered In the ebate between Gov. Blease and his mading opponent, Ira B. Jones. There ras much cheering, and after a rhile general laugis, were frequent. oth speakers were subjected to a ontinuous but a fairly good natuTed eckling. Perhaps the rapid inter bange between speakers and Individ als in the crowd was the chief fac yr in the restoration ot good humor.' these crackling and harmless dis arges the currents of feeling with 'hich the situation was subcharged ,ere dissipated insensibly. A cir amstance which probabl' played Its art in the maintenance of reason bly good order was the presence of -omen. These were out in large numbers, flatively and absolutely than at any revious meeting of this campaign. ome of them-"the majority of the Adles of Georgetown"-the governor id sent some flowers to Gov. Blease rough. Dave Rogers of Andrews. everal handsome floral tributes -ere sent to Judge Jones, one of iem bearing the card of the Wo Len's Christian Temperance Union. [ost of the women present applaud I Judge Jones, and they did it vig rously and often. Gov. Blease quite ridently felt elated over his recep on, but he left the stand on con uding his speech and so failed to itness the really remarkable dem astration made in favor of Judge >es. There were few developments be and the contribution of a new'chap r by Judge Jones to the controversy rer special judges and the .avowal Gor. Blease of his alignment there ith the Atlantic Coast Lumber cor ration factions as represented po tically by Dr. Olin Sawyer. The servative or '"Old Georgetown" ction, which at this time appears to ave the upper hand, was represent Iin force at Saturday's meeting, the airman, L. B. Ehrich, being of titat Judge Jones had charged at Horry Lat the governor by refusing to comn ission a lawyer of Conway Paul nattlebaum, as special judge under regular appointment .by the chief stice had caused an "abortion" of ie Horry court and so entailed eavy and needless expenses uipon te county. Gov. Blease in reply de ared that he did not commission r. Quattlebaum because either of -o circuit judges might have been ssigned to hold the Horry court. Judge Copes, -he said, was free, ad Judge fiemminger had Informed Im by telephone that he also was agaged and available for duty. idge Jones read Saturday a tele ram from Judge Memminger as fol aws: "Referring to the Horry court wired you that under orders of Dr. anning Simons I was too ill to hold lat court, and I stated the same ing to Gov. Blease, in answer to is long distance inquiry whether I ad any other court to hold then." Gov. Blease was uproariously wel ymed, particularly vociferous sup-.' art being furnished by the party -om Andrews, who stood immediate in front of him. H~e said he had ten am bitious, but in youth he little reamed a time would come when e term "Bleaseism" would sweep te, State and the people of the whole ymmonwealth, would line up for id against him. He had been asks I, he said, whether candidates for ie legislature ought to be required. pledge themselves to one or the :her of the candidates for governor. he proper and only test, he said, ould be their willingness and abil y to serve the best interests of the >unty. oicce from the crowd had ked preceding speakers, Messrs. .Ichards and Wharton, whether they .re for Blease or Jones, but the ucstionl had been ignored, and had ot been pressed) Georgetown, said the governor. ad been well served in the house of r~nesenatves by Walter Doar and n Sawyer. H~e had helped make [r. Doar county superintendent of ducation, but Dr. Sawyer was run ng for the legislature and ought to eeelected, though Dr. Sawyer had metimes oppased Blease. The gov rnor's usual distribe against newS apers evoked the usual yells and el mets in the crowd also shouted heir approval of his familiar deliv rance on corporations, "niggers, Lad lycing. He asked those inter sted in his pardon record to read his Book of Pardons"; he hadn't time ~nthe stump to discuss particular Judge Jones was greeted with a mCentinlued on last gage')..